The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-27
Notes from Minnesota.
WILDER, MINI, July 8, 1887.


DEAR CLARION: / trust no one will
think me less loyal to my Southern
home, if, in the fullness of Joy at rapid
ly renewing strength, call to Others to
"Come up, and grow strong in breath
ing this life-giving air and drinking this
water that needs no ice Entranced
and spell-bound | ask: Can | ever be
dreary here? Oh, if / could only go
back and gather up some of those | left
behind.
The world with its Prohibition and
its Prohibition, its mass meetings,
and its barbecues, and scrsmbles for
Office seems far away, and Heaven, the
sweet "Heaven of rest" so near. Is it
not strange that people will go year at
ter wear, through the tiresome monotony
of watering place life; the same I'M
VARYING, uninteresting round OF dress
| ing and dancing, when a few weeks
spent on our Western lakes would be so
soul-satisfying and healthful2 1t must
be that many of them only need re.
Winding of its superior advantages, and
the ease and comfort with which 50
many hundred miles may be traversed,
TO undertake it.
You can get good country board here
right on the bank of Minneseke Lake
for three dollars per week. Just IN
front of the Colleges, is the lake. Baes
of us. field of fax, ibid you ever see
field of flax in bloom?) then comes the
wheat. still green; then the barley, its
golden heads glittering in the sunshine
ready for the reaper. Here and there
the russell oats meekly bows its head to
the breeze, while banks of wild roses
from the deepest rose-pink to white
make a picture of indescribable beauty
But these are not all. There is not
only the sapphire lake, with Its emerald
setting. and the fields of blue and goic
(tiax and barley, interspersed Will
brilliant colored wild flowers; but when
evening comes, as every illuminated
page of natures book were to De turnet
for us, flashes up long qulyering line
of light-rose color aud sliyer-ul
earth, sea and sky are ablaze with glory
What a grand place it is for children
, I wish all the Southern girls and boy
] could have year or two up here.
think it might be called the boys de
light" with the hunting, fishing an
, boating. must not neglect to mention
! the breautiful drives. There is on,
avenue. three miles in length, in whic
II i hard to tell where the earth leave
off and the heavens begin. | rode twelv
j miles yesterday, behind pair OF fas
E trotters, driving around the lake.
: Best of all, TO my poor tired head an
! heart. is the sweet sleep, that come
q without coaxing, in the cosy little rooms
where there is no need 70 lock trunE
or doors. There are no thieves around
Il Then. too, like the people. 1t mui
: needs be men of mark who are pioneers
. men who will stand strong as rocl
, when the waves of encouragement das
against them. ] am glad to have m
= sons work shoulder to shoulder wit
!. / such men. There are brighteyed, sou
full girls, loving appreciatingly the vii.
ii grand beauty Of their lakes and field
!. even when winter holds them ice-boun
o. So / say to all my Southern frien
when YOU are tired out with the Ion
II summer days, just jump aboard the
C.. Railroad (you viii not need al
p. new clothes to come here1, and 1t W
bring Won fright this way, gentlemen
I hope to exchange many visits WI
INV Southern friends.
Yours, truly, q. NARE